After suffering 70 child deaths linked to cough syrup imported from India, The Gambia will make it mandatory for all pharmaceutical products from the country to be inspected and tested prior to shipment
Seventy children died in the Gambia last year after ingesting cough syrup made in India. Now the Gambia is taking steps to "address issues related to substandard and falsified medicines entering the country".Grieving parents hold up signs during a news conference, calling for justice for the deaths of children linked to contaminated cough syrups, in Serekunda, Gambia, November 4, 2022.
The new rule highlights how governments are reassessing their reliance on India's $42 billion pharmaceutical industry since the contamination came to light last year. India's industry supplies nearly half of the pharmaceuticals used in Africa. In April, India’s government said its officials had held meetings in Africa to ensure its drug exports did not suffer after at least 70 children died in the Gambia after ingesting the cough syrup last year.
The letter said that the MCA had appointed Quntrol Laboratories, an independent inspection and testing company for pharmaceuticals based in Mumbai, to issue a Clean Report of Inspection and Analysis for all shipments from India.
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